Just days before the 0.5.0a release, I followed the Fink instructions for Fink on OS X 10.2 to include the unstable trees when installing Fink on my XServe.
Yesterday I did a Fink selfupdate (from cvs since I initially configured Fink to grab out of cvs) .... and I now have 0.5.0a.cvs (grabbed with the unstable trees flipped on).
If I want to bring my system to the state of, say, a person starting out with a virgin install of Fink today on OS X 10.2, should I merely edit my .conf file to remove the unstable trees and then do another fink selfupdate today (to pull out 0.5.0a.cvs with stable trees only)?
Thanks for any suggestions. I have to write an installation document for a friend of mine who's new to Fink and new to Mac OS X. He also has an Xserve. We need our Xserves to be mirrors of each other (especially mirrors of the Fink installs on each of our Xserves). Since he has never installed Fink on his Xserve running OS X 10.2, I need to make sure my system is a mirror of his (he will gain the benefit of a basic installation starting from scratch, which doesn't even require Fink core coming out out of CVS)
-Brendan
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 04:32 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
You can always turn off the unstable tree. Also, Fink Commander (http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net) has an option to display the latest stable version of a package, so that you can do strategic updating to avoid updating from a stable tree versionOn Tue, 2002-12-10 at 09:09, Daniel M. Bikel wrote:But then aren't you stuck using the "bleeding edge" packages in unstable/main, instead of the (by definition) more stable packages in stable/main? That is my concern. --Dan. On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Brendan Lane Larson wrote:Dan,
Similarly, I had just installed Mac OS X 10.2.2 on an Xserve and pulled
down the Fink core from cvs (version 0.5.0.cvs). Last night I just did
"fink selfupdate" and it confirmed that my installation settings were
to grab the core out of CVS, so I yes and it then got me to version
0.5.0a.cvs.
I think this should work fine, no? Is not 0.5.0a.cvs the same as 0.5.0a?
Cheers,
-Brendan
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 03:27 AM, Daniel M. Bikel wrote:
0.5a is out. Yea! Now, can anyone tell me how I move from my current
version to this version?
You see, just a few days ago, I installed fink from scratch on my
10.2.2
desktop computer (I had been using 10.1.5 for the longest time,
waiting for
fink 0.5). As per the instructions in the News section of the website,
this involved a lot of compiling from source, using packages from the
unstable/main and unstable/crypto trees. But now that 0.5a is out, I'd
like to no longer rely on the unstable trees, if possible.
So, first of all: how do I find out if the few packages I'm interested
in
have been moved to the stable sections? I only use fink to run X,
emacs20
and lyx (and all the other, dependent packages, such as tetex).
Second: assuming the packages of interest are "stable", how do I
migrate
properly to a "stable" fink dis'n?
My current version is:
Package manager version: 0.11.0
Distribution version: 0.5.0.cvs
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
--Dan.
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